Adams Grammar entrance 2010
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Adams Grammar entrance 2010
My son will be giving the Adams entrance exam in Nov 2010. Please can anyone recommend good teachers in Telford. Thank you
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Sorry - don't know any tutors but there are lots of materials on here which you can use to tutor your child yourself.
By the way, the Adams exam is usually in Jan, straight after the Christmas break, so you have an extra month to prepare.
Resmum
By the way, the Adams exam is usually in Jan, straight after the Christmas break, so you have an extra month to prepare.
Resmum
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adam's exam
It sounds like the school are trying to make the entrance exam a bit fairer by trying to discourage intensive tutoring.
If I were you I would:
Encourage reading to increase your son's vocabulary. If he doesn't like reading books then try to find other ways to get him to learn new words. There are some useful vocab lists you can download from this site.
Make sure he knows his times tables inside out. And try to cover the maths topics that are traditonally covered by 11plus which go a bit beyond KS2 ( nets, basic algebra, angles of triangles, etc.)
Practice doing word/maths oriented puzzles and some non-verbal reasoning (i.e. where you are looking for patterns or sequences).
Finally, make sure he knows to work quickly and not spend too much time on one question (unless there are very few questions in the test!) but to move on and go back to it later. Also, to try to use what he already knows if a question seems too difficult - e.g. the area of a right angled triangle is half the area of a rectangle made up of the two shorter sides.
Good luck
Resmum
If I were you I would:
Encourage reading to increase your son's vocabulary. If he doesn't like reading books then try to find other ways to get him to learn new words. There are some useful vocab lists you can download from this site.
Make sure he knows his times tables inside out. And try to cover the maths topics that are traditonally covered by 11plus which go a bit beyond KS2 ( nets, basic algebra, angles of triangles, etc.)
Practice doing word/maths oriented puzzles and some non-verbal reasoning (i.e. where you are looking for patterns or sequences).
Finally, make sure he knows to work quickly and not spend too much time on one question (unless there are very few questions in the test!) but to move on and go back to it later. Also, to try to use what he already knows if a question seems too difficult - e.g. the area of a right angled triangle is half the area of a rectangle made up of the two shorter sides.
Good luck
Resmum